WASHINGTON Whether it’s a hernia repair or heart bypass, doctors who perform a given operation more frequently get better results. The problem for patients has been determining who those physicians ...

If you are a doctor, the odds are that your patients think or do things you don’t agree with. Nearly half of Americans believe at least one health-related conspiracy theory, people routinely lie to ...

After years of writing about health and working out how to manage my own handful of chronic conditions, I felt pretty confident in my ability to navigate the American medical system…until two years ...

SOCIAL DISTANCING REQUIREMENTS THOUSANDS OF EXPECTING MOMS HAVE CONTRACTED CORONAVIRUS. THE CDC SAYS PREGNANT WOMEN ARE AT A HIGHER RISK OF BECOMING SEVERELY ILL IF THEY CATCH IT KMBC NINES ROB HUGHES ...

Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, York University, Emergency Physician at University Health Network, Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto In ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many newly diagnosed cancer patients, no matter what their age, have trouble absorbing all the information their doctors give them, a new study shows. The findings, which ...

When we go to the doctor, most of us expect to receive the best possible advice on whatever ails us. Unfortunately, some medical groups see that as a quaintly archaic notion. Associations are ...

Last week’s arrest of a French doctor for leaking information about a clinical trial to a hedge fund is disturbing, but the alleged activity is neither new nor particularly rare. I’m going to describe ...

Back in 1982, when I first began my career as a family practitioner in a small town of Boston, I was confident that the care I’d provide would be as effective as the care patients receive anywhere in ...

We’ve seen a lot of coverage of AI applications to healthcare within the last three years – as ChatGPT and other models have rapidly evolved, it didn’t take long for professionals and others to ...